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| Brand: Samsung
Category: Wireless
List Price: $179.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 158
Color: Black
Media: Wireless Phone
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
Model: Blast
UPC: 610214614476
ASIN: B000UOFVDW
Release Date: August 5, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 Doesn't work as advertised February 16, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
While the Blast is fine for normal calls, the email service does not work correctly. It does not connect to Yahoo correctly and don't even try and connect to Gmail. T-mobile technical support has been unable to get it working correctly...and I've been trying since August '07.The voice activated dialing software is also horrible. If you need email - don't get this phone.
 Impressive Mid-Range phone January 7, 2008
27 out of 27 found this review helpful
I'm a proud owner of the Samsung Blast for roughly 1 month. My motorla phone finally took one fall to many and stop functioning. Of course I initially wanted an Iphone or its likeness based on all its cool new features, but quickly realized that both the phone and the monthly plan was to expensive. My criteria for a phone was cheap, be cool, and have a qwerty like keyboard.
I was initially drawn to the Blast because of its mini-qwerty keyboard. The pearl 8100 was my only other finalist. Afters days of indecisiveness and research I choose the blast because A)surfing the web wasn't important feature for me {and i wasn't impressed at all with the speed of the 8100's net}. B)Blast was noticeably cheaper.
Most sales rep's are useless about all the features this phone carries. After purchasing it I had mixed fixings but let me tell you, the more you know of the phones features, the more you're GOING TO LOVE IT! Things I love about this phone, in order of coolness determined by me!
Keyboard: I found myself typing more and more on the phone this year so having extra buttons has been a great addition. Auto-complete is almost always on par(to the point I only check right before i send). Once you understand the rhyme and reason to how its laid out you'll be sending messages faster. Except, somethings like, :) , make you go through an extra set of menu to type out which makes me very :(
Checking email without paying an extra $20-$30 a month. Had no idea my phone had this feature til after i bought the phone (again, thanks to useless sales guys)!I mainly use gmail and I connected very easily - not sure why people had problems. Yahoo's built in so that too was easy. Very surprised how easy it was based on other peoples problems.
Voice Activated Commands - Typically anything voice activated sucks. My GPS has one, voice dictation, my other phone. Heck, my other phone made me record the name and then when i went to search by voice it couldn't find it. This phone makes every entry in your contacts callable by voice, without any set up! With one button i say "call mike". If its sure it will connect you directly, if not it will give you three choices. These two options are right about 98%, amazing! Theres many other voice commands like say, "Call 555-555-1234" or ones that take you right to a function.
There's also this cool feature that will sound out what number your dialing. Don't have it turned on, but a fun feature, possibly great for the blind community (but how will they know this from my review?)
Auto-Complete - lets say its noisy, voice activation won't work that well, so dont worry. After you type in the first 3 numbers, it automatically brings up numbers fitting that sequence stored in your phonebook for recommendations.
Seach phonebook by name: This feature was a big pet-peeve of mine with my motorola. Lets say i wanted to get the number for mike. Well i had 20 friends that started with M and i had to scroll down past everyone til i got to his name. Not anymore, just spell his name in the directory and takes me right there. This isn't a new feature, but my motorola didn't have this feature and I never got over it (my 1st phone did)!
Large picture ID when your friends call and you store their photo.
Bluetooth works great. Nothing really special but no problems either.
Tip Calculator that factors in percentages a user can define (no big deal really to me as this is a simple math equation) but it then has a feature dividing it by number of paying customers and the total for each person, pretty nifty.
Unit Calculator: Whats 1.5 oz in pounds, or whats 83 fahrenheit in Celsius. It converts length, weight, volume, area, temperature 100's of different ways - very cool feature i discovered & now my friends turn to me and say " Hey, whats ..."!
Lock out feature: Letting somebody borrow your phone doesn't have to feel like an invasion of privacy. By pushing some buttons you can make the phone locked out to only the most basic features like dialing digits. Haven't found a use for it just yet but i predict it will come in handy someday.
It also has tons more basic features and some other nifty programs waiting for you to discover. The phone had a bit of a learning curve, new keyboard layout, new features all took time to get use to but once you learn them you'll love the phone for what it can do.
So my experience isn't 100% rosy. Here's what i don't like.
The Manual. Since you'll find yourself referring it dozens of times it didn't always give you a clear answer. Example:
The phone has tons of icons on the main page and one of these icons kept blinking - for the life of me i couldn't figure out what it was. Checked the manual 10 different ways and it was finally 3 days later, annoyed at my blinking phone i call the friendly customer support tmobile lady who luckily had a similar phone. Same exact problem and went through pulling her hair out to get rid of it. She guided me to the fix. Come on Samsung, go through the book fill those holes (theres more I could go into but for the sake of your time and my blood pressure i'll skip)
Comfort - I've always had the flip phones and like that design. The slide design doesn't contour that well to your face and i find myself either blocking the mic with my finger (who's the genius engineer who places the mic where you naturally rest your finger) while trying to wrap it around my head . I'm getting more use to it, positioning my hands. If i'm goign to have a long conversation I tend to use my bluetooth anyways.
Mini qwert problems. Since you now have letters assigned to different buttons you can no longer make a call based on letters (IE: call bob at 800-CALL-BOB) because the letters now don't properly align. This could be an easy fix but Samsung doesn't have any solutions that i'm aware of.
Cases: Because of its unique design, finding proper, form-fitting cases has been somewhat of a challenge. Although i've found some options, there not readily available.
Shortcuts - You've probably notice a tendency in my review to make a call or function in as few steps as possible. Samsungs done a great job in this regard except you can only program one button on its face (out of a possible 12) to your preference. Sucks because some shortcuts i'll never use (like memo voice recorder) and would love to change it out.
Very limited choice of ring-tones/msg tones. I'm surprised by this,well, maybe not 'that' surprised considering if you want something cool sounding on your phone be prepared to fork over $2 a pop. No thanks, i'll figure out the free way, eventually.
Overall i'm happy with my choice. Receptions good, volumes are about average of a cell. I initially only resigned with Tmobile for a year because i figured in that time Tmobile will have phones more like the iphone. But each day i discover something new within the Blast and it's been a fun, rewarding learning experience. Still have a few more unknowns to solve & can't wait to figure them out. I'd recommend it as a great mid-range cell. Price was right & rich with feature. Perfect stepping stone to those of us that want something more then a basic boring phone but don't want all those unspoken of fees associated with those latest & greatest snazzy phones. Hope my review gives you some insight to my experience and helps you on your journey to a new, exciting phone.
Overall, great phone... December 7, 2007
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
I have had my own Samsung Blast for a little over 4 months now and decided to read through some of the customer comments and reviews. The one that really jumped out at me was Sarabellum's comment stating that you can't switch from predictive text (T9)and when the phone is closed you can't operate it. These statements are completely false.
The predictive text is extremely easy to turn off. You press the upper right hand button on the main keypad when creating a message. This will cycle you through the different text options. It is one of the easiest problems to fix.
As an earlier cutomer pointed out, you can do many things while the phone is closed. You can make and answer calls, read text messages, play games, listen to music, check e-mail(if sign-in is saved in phone), etc.
As a user of the phone, I have been very pleased with it. Sound quality is excellent, the new letter design which is set up like a comp. keyboard may take a bit to get used to but eventually works quite well, the camera is wonderful, memory space is just fine without a memory card (I have had the phone for 4 months and still have not bought a memory card. Overall it performs well and is great all around. Although I will agree that the battery could be a bit bigger or at least made to last longer.
 good but not that good... December 3, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
so i got this phone 3 wks ago after having 5-6 yrs of motorolas, so i keep going back to learn new things from the manual. YES the pretext thing is absolutely anonnying when it comes to texting. and i also dont think that it has as sensetive keys as my other phones, simply because when i'm texting really fast it takes a frac. of sec to recognize my lettering or like 3/4 of the time puts in the wrong letter, simply because i'm going too fast. the sound quality i think is fantastic, loud and clear. it has way more features than any other phone i had and it looks smooth. one thing i really want to know is that what is the double arrow >>| on the * key, didnt find it anywhere on manual. and to answer the apostrophe prob. your suposed to press Alt + L (2x). what i want to know though is how do you go about changing the soft keys on the main page, or cant you? but once you figure out all the little stuff and boost its memory its a good handy phone.
A Great Phone November 25, 2007
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Pros-
-mp3
-bluetooth
-longer video time
-easy use keyboard
-1.2megapixel camera with special effects.
Cons-
-little memory*
-The stupid thing that happens while texting when it thinks it knows what you are thinking.
*Can be fixed by buying a microSD. can be found for around $8-$50+ depending on capacity.
Great cell phone for teenagers. Easy to text with. Strong. Light. Large screen, a customizable button. I really like this phone.
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